[ SECRET POST #4724 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4724 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, why not headcanon all of the above? I think it's reasonable to reinterpret Yao as trans, since overcompensating through machismo is a coping mechanism as well. But it's a bit of a no-win situation here because when we have difficulty conforming to AGAB we're "stereotypical" and when we don't we're "trending."

Never mind that those criteria were created by homophobic straight people for the purpose of identifying us as targets of violence.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, sure, that's fine. Literally it's fine.

But the complaint I and a lot of people have is that it's always, ALWAYS the "I'm not like other girls" characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you're unaware that all of the Disney Princesses(tm) have been queered in sexuality and gender at least once, you probably haven't been paying much attention.

A fair number of us have years of experience getting shit as "not like the other girls/boys." And we're not obligated to practice some sort of headcanon affirmative action when wrestling with almost complete erasure within major franchises. We pick the subtext and negative spaces we find interesting, and we crack that nut open with a wedge of transformative work.

That's exactly how non-canon shipping works BTW. And if I can skim past the huge mass of fanwork about canonically straight men inexplicably in true love with each other, you can do the same for the relatively smaller volume of trans and genderqueer fanwork.